Sediment Mass-Flow Processes on a Depositional Lobe, Outer Mississippi Fan

William C. Schwab , Homa J. Lee , David C. Twichell , Jacques Locat , C. Hans Nelson , William G. McArthur , Neil H. Kenyon

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... generally high acoustic backscatter (Twichell et al. 1991). Channels representing conduits of sediment transport that extended from the Mississippi...

Structures Associated with Downsag and Basin Development: Examples from the Gulf of Mexico Province and Other Environments

James J. Willis, Daniel A. Ruberg, Kristen M. Willis

GCAGS Transactions

... surfaces, such as crater ejecta, backscatter energy back to the receiver and thus appear radar bright, whereas smooth surfaces, such as flood lava flows...

Traces In the Dark—Sedimentary Processes and Facies Gradients In the Upper Shale Member of the Upper Devonian–Lower Mississippian Bakken Formation, Williston Basin, North Dakota, U.S.A

Sven O. Egenhoff, Neil S. Fishman

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... with an energy-dispersive spectrometer (EDS). SEM analyses included both secondary and backscatter imagery typically at an operating current of 15 kV...

Improving Our Understanding of Porosity in Source Rock Reservoirs through Advanced Imaging Techniques

Leo Alcantar-Lopez, Steve J. Chipera

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... angle backscatter detector (LABE) for backscatter images (BSE); energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS) maps were collected with an X-ray silicon...

Qualitative and Quantitative Processing of Side Scan Sonar Data

F.S. Dwan, A.L. Anderson, T.W.C. Hilde

Circum Pacific Council Publications

... through this method. MitcheII and Somers (1989) described the quantitative backscatter measurements with GLORIA system. In contrast to the qualitative...

Composite Particles in Mudstones: Examples from the Late Cretaceous Tununk Shale Member of the Mancos Shale Formation

Zhiyang Li, Juergen Schieber

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... 7D under the SEM (backscatter and secondary electron images). Secondary electron images are generally better at revealing the outlines of fecal...

Super-giant oil slick cluster identification using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), integrated with 4D inverse modeling and 2D and 3D seismic data, as direct seafloor oil seepage indicators in the ultra-deepwater outboard frontier areas of the presalt province of the Santos Basin, Brazil

Marcio Rocha Mello, Carlos Henrique Beisl, Oswaldo Antunes Pedrosa Junior, Vanessa Bonanno Haliburton, Cleverson Guizan Silva, Luiz Antonio Pierantoni Gamboa, Kenji Motoki, Sidney Luiz de Matos Mello, Zhao Junfeng, Guo Yuan, Manlio Mano

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... attributes such as minimum boundary geometry, fractal dimension, and sigma 0 backscatter obtained for each feature are fundamental for an oil slick pattern...

First Implementation of Hybrid Fiber Optic Cable in Indonesia - Carbon Reduction through Leading-Edge Technology

Marsha Sakina, Dinda Larasati Rahmani, Fajar Tri Prasetia, Cikko Majesta, Francesco Miranda

Indonesian Petroleum Association

..., and the variation of the backscatter Rayleigh signal that travels back to the Interrogator is recorded. Inserting the laser pulse, generating...

Natural Hydrocarbon Seepage in Offshore Northern Perth Basin: Evidence for an Extension of Active Perth Basin Petroleum Systems

Nadege Rollet, Andrew Jones, Emmanuelle Grosjean, Chris Nicholson, Jens Greinert

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... depth a seepage interpretation, as this is consistent Pockmarks, concretions and high-backscatter (<3m). A m inim um penetrat ion of 6 m...

Frontmatter, Glossary and Image Catalog: Electron Microscopy of Shale Hydrocarbon Reservoirs

Wayne K. Camp, Elizabeth Diaz, Barry Wawak

AAPG Special Volumes

.... Slatt and Neal R. O’Brien   Chapter 6 45   SEM Characterization of Shale Gas Reservoirs Using Combined Secondary and Backscatter Electron Methods...

Factors Controlling Modern Submarine Fan Architecture and Implications for Paleogene to Miocene Petroleum Plays in the Gulf of Mexico; #50287 (2010)

Hans Nelson, John Damuth, Hilary Olson, Carlota Escutia

Search and Discovery.com

... Bryant Fan (200 km length) youngest (unit 4) channel levee complex is outlined (orange dots) Note high backscatter lobe with apparent high sand...

Innovative Methods for Flow Unit and Pore Structure Analysis in a Tight Gas Reservoir, Montney Formation, NE, BC, Canada, #50439 (2011)

Per K. Pedersen, Chris Clarkson, Jerry Jensen, Omar Derder, Melissa Freeman

Search and Discovery.com

... Microfacies Probe Permeability PPL photomicrograph Electron backscatter image 1 cm Microfacies: 1: >5mm thick coarse siltstone beds/lamina 2: <5mm thick...

A Petrographic Analysis of the Lower Bakken Shale and Pronghorn Member of the Bakken Formation, Williston Basin; #51330 (2016)

Jingqi Xu, Dipanwita Nandy, Steve Sonnenberg

Search and Discovery.com

... Shale (about 11 ft above the LBS/Pronghorn, and 10 ft below the LBS/MBM) Planolites Figure 16. Backscatter electron images of radiolaria in the Lower...

Deepwater West Coast India

Glyn Roberts, Spectrum, DGH

GEO ExPro Magazine

... (backscatter reduction) on the image. Expert analysis then allows us to differentiate natural seeps from pollution slicks. Moreover, as satellite data...

KNOX LOGGING Y2K

Brad S. Posner, Schlumberger Oilfield Services, East Pike, Zanesville, OH

Ohio Geological Society

.... This "backscatter" detector allows for more accurate and repeatable density measurements in a wider variety of borehole...

New Insight Into Structure and Tectonics of the Seram Trough From SeaSeep’ High Resolution Bathymetry

Philip A. Teas, John Decker, Dan Orange, Peter Baillie

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... acquired multi-beam bathymetry and backscatter data over the majority of the Seram Trough (Figure 1) as a non-exclusive survey. This data provides a new...

Looking Down the Wellbore

David Macdonald, Dave Healy, Graham Webber

GEO ExPro Magazine

... large sample sizes (e.g. 10 cm x 10 cm), complete with detectors for cathodoluminescence (CL), electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) and energy...

2-D and 3-D Prestack Depth Migration for Complex Geologic Structures Offshore Indonesia

M. Murphy, R. Ottolini, R. Estill, E. Lumadyo, M. Mathias

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... of residual moveout and therefore degraded the accuracy of the velocity model and subsequent depth focusing. The noise was mostly a result of backscatter...

Abstract: Tree ring studies in Labrador: investigating spatial and temporal patterns in climatic and ecological factors affecting tree growth

Trevor Bell, C. Kennedy, A. D. Dumeresq, P. H. Nishimura, P. Trindade, C. P. Laroque, A. B. Young

Atlantic Geology

...) to examine the distribution of multibeam sonar-derived depth, slope and backscatter values for sampled stations in each substrate class; (3) from the EDA...

In-Well Stress Shadow and Near-wellbore Fracture Geometry Diagnosis Using High-resolution Distributed Strain Sensing via Rayleigh Frequency Shift

Aishwarya Srinivasan, Dana M. Jurick, Kyle Haustveit, Ge Jin, Artur Guzik, Kan Wu

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...) through Rayleigh Frequency Shift (RFS) (which will be called as RFS-DSS) is accomplished by utilizing the backscatter of Rayleigh waves...

Epoxy Rock Replicas for Microtoming: RESEARCH-METHOD PAPER

Christian Straley, Mary Margaret Minnis

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... in the backscatter mode overcomes this problem because it peers into the full depth of the sample and is relatively insensitive to surface...

Introduction: Resolution is the solution

William W. Sager, William R. Bryant, Earl H. Doyle

AAPG Bulletin

..., the authors explore seep geology and structure as well as the reasons for enhanced sonar backscatter around seeps. Although the sonar worked well...

Near-surface hydrocarbon seeps as indicators of petroleum charge: The evolution of site selection, sample collection, laboratory analysis, and interpretation

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Abstract: Active Hydrocarbon Seepages in the Offshore Part of the St. Lawrence Paleozoic Platform Pictured by Geophysical, Geochemical and Submarine Observations; #90171 (2013)

N. Pinet, M. Duchesne, D. Lavoie, and A. Bolduc

Search and Discovery.com

...- Carbonate crusts of interpreted chemosynthetic origin have been sampled in two pockmarks associated with high backscatter values. These crusts exhibit...

Abstract: Saglek Basin: At Least ONE Petroleum System in an Ultra-frontier Basin with Great Potential; #90171 (2013)

Hans J.B.W. Wielens and Chris D. Jauer

Search and Discovery.com

... this as a reduced backscatter measurement. Images collected on separate dates were compared to increase the confidence that the sea-surface features are the result...